Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-18
NOTES..

A. j. Alexander, founder of WOODBURY.
Farm, n.y., offered $4,000 for the re-
nowned trotting sire, George Wilkes, in
his five-year-old form. Had the offer
been accepted and Wilkes placed at the
head of Woodburn stud, he would prob
ably have had more than twice the num-
Der of 2 80 performers to his credit than
at present.
A writer in Western contemporary
breaks away at a two-minute clip and
describes Surrey, the dam of Henry Clay,
as PAGER. l do not know from what
source he derived his information, but he
would find he had made grievous error
If he ever attempted to air his knowledge
in the presence of those who frequented
the Long Island tracks between 1926 and
1880, when the little short-neclled mare
was on the turf. She never paced rod
in her life. but was as pure gated trot-
ter as a man ever threw leg over. She
could trot in about 40, which was very
fast in those days. Please do not let us
hear any more about Surrey being pa
NOi iOi IL 10 OillN waste VI tll1c anu space
repeating the old story over again. Hen
ry Clay had not drop of known pacing
blood in his veins. The dam of Andrew
Jackson was said to have paced and trot-
ted, but her breeding is unknown, and
neither way of going should have the
benefit of the neutrality-suspicious..
The dam of Garfield and Harry Wilkes
died on the farm of her owner Squire
Jas. NJ. Hendren, at Speedwell in Madi-
son county, on the 18th, aged % years.
This old mare originated on Tates Creek,
in Madison, and belonged to the father-in-
law of Mr.. Hendren. Her colt Garfield
was first sold for $40 and finally sold for
$4,000. Harry Wilkes was foaed after
the mare came into the possession of
Squire Hendren, and he sold the colt to
w. k. Letcher, as twO-year-old, for
$3.50. The latest sale of Harry Wilkes
was for Sl7 800. Molle Walker never
gave any evidence of greatness except in
producing the two fleet horses above
mentioned. She had no pedigree
Richmond Register.
A correspondent of the Chicago Horse
man. who has lately visited Capt. Jake
Vanderbilt, reports the well-known trot-
ter Boston (2:27D by Daniel Lambert,
dam by Patrick Henry, son of Hills
Black Hawk, in fine condition. Horse
men in this vicinity will remember the
ease with which Boston captured
several races during the fall of 1879. Few
trotters in the vicinity of New York city
eyer enjoyed higher reputation as a
gentleman's roadster American Guilt
yator.
General Wilkes, who entered the 80
class at Nashville and who won his races
at st. Louis and Lexington, closing the
short campaign with record of :2la, is
a plain looking gray horse of l6 hands
and six years old, by George Wilkes, out
of Grace Goodman, 81, by Peacock, son
of Benton's Diomed; second dam by
Drennon and third dam by Grey Eagle.
He is owned at Edge Hill Stock Farm,
and it was only at the urgent solicitation
of Mrs. Cook that he was trained. The
preference of Mr., Cook was Ohio Wilkes,
the younger brother of the General.
After General Wilkes had won his races,
Mr.. Cook was glad that he took the adj
vice of his wife. Next year, with good
luck, the strong and rangy gray stallion
should reduce his record several seconds
Grace Goodman is still alive and she is in
foal by Onward. She is seventeen years
old, and is credited with trial of three
heats in , ~, 2:l9, :23. For number
of years she was driven to pole in Cincin-
NATL Exchange.
The Cheshire Improvement Co. of
which Jones w. Wilder is president. and
Abner w. Pollard treasurer, has a farm
of several thousand acres at East Rindge,
n. H., and is beginning to pay good
deal of attention to trotters. They have
| two stations, full brothers, the oldest of
which, named Dave Barnett, is six years
old, and was sent to Fleetwood Park,
after full stud season, for John Murphy
to train. He very readily got mile
from him in 2 :33, and he would have
been driven for Il wager to beat 80, but
the weather turned so bad that the idea
was given up for the present. He was
sired by Gen. Sherman, dam by Daniel
Lambert. The reason l speak of the |
matter is that the grandam was
represented as being "sired by the
celebrated imported horse Colonel"
1t devolved upon me to tabulate the ped
igree of Dave Barnett and had informa-
ton that Colonel was owned by Mr..
George Parish of Ogdensburgh, n. Y.
The stud books showed no imported Col
onel, but horse named the The Colonel
appeared as being imported; but refer
ence to his breeding showed that he was